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Subject: Re: Self-modifying code - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 6-Jan-84 23:49:43 EST
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inmet!andrew    Jan  5 12:10:00 1984

Very interesting!  I had proposed doing a similar thing many years ago
('72 or so) and everybody thought I was crazy!  I ended up doing it,
sort of, by using a crude interpreter instead - creating a parse tree
and walking it to evaluate the function again each time an argument
changed value.
 
Andrew W. Rogers, Intermetrics    ...{harpo|ima|esquire}!inmet!andrew